Barely 24 hours after we – on impulse – bought a leather living room set off the driveway of strangers, my husband mired us in understatement. “We Americans sure love ourselves some Chinese fireworks,” he said. It smudged the collective poor judgment of our countrymen across our own obvious economic and decorative blunder.

It seems that every season of the year has an active pest problem. It’s a never-ending cycle of pests and there are two major pests that will be showing up in a couple of weeks: fall army worms and red-headed Azalea caterpillars.